the word theater comes from the Greek word

the word theater comes from the Greek word theatron, meaning "seeing place. " В презентации использованы материалы электронной энциклопедии “Microsoft Encarta 2006”

These two masks have come to symbolize theater and its two major dramatic categories, comedy and tragedy. Theater, one of the oldest and most popular forms of entertainment, in which actors perform live for an audience on a stage or in an other space designated for the performance.

D R A M A Scene from Marat/Sade This scene is from the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1966 production of a play by Peter Weiss called The Persecution and Assassination of Jean. Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade.

T R A G E D Y The National Theater of Greece staged this production of the ancient Greek tragedy by Sophocles in 2000 at the Colosseum in Rome. Modern Production of Oedipus Rex

C O M E D Y Fairies emerge from doorways in space, and Bottom’s bed hangs suspended before the moon in this 1998 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon. A Midsummer Night’s Dream

O P E R A Opera, drama in which the text is set to music and staged. The texts of operas are sung, with singing and stage action nearly always given instrumental accompaniment. La Traviata at La Scala

B A L L E T Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker

Marionettes P U P P E T T H E A T R E Marionettes

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